Get help with a lisp, at any age.
A short lisp check, simple demonstrations of the S sound and lisp practice you can do at home.
A free lisp check for children, teens and adults. Understand what you notice and find a useful next step. A short check can’t diagnose a lisp: SpeechStep is practice software, not therapy, and for a concern a licensed speech-language pathologist is the next step. I’m an SLP →
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SpeechStep is speech-practice software built first for lisps and the S sound: a free lisp check for children, teens and adults, guides to what you notice, short guided practice at home, and progress you can share with your own speech-language pathologist if you choose.
From first assessment to a practice plan
One loop: assess, understand, plan, practise daily — with the evidence in front of the professional who needs to see it.
Assess
A guided assessment of about ten minutes: a sound check on target words, then a few sentences as a natural speech sample.
Snapshot
A plain-language Speech Snapshot: which sounds sounded clear, which are still developing for the age. A screening, not a diagnosis.
Plan
A practice plan built from the Snapshot — or set directly by your SLP, whose plan is what your child sees each day.
Practise daily
Short sessions: hear a clear example, say the word, listen back beside it — with honest feedback, never an invented score.
Guidance
Share the progress you choose with your SLP, who can review recordings and adjust the plan between sessions.
Five magical minutes a day.
Your child plays in their Speech Garden: hear the word, say it, listen back — and every try grows a flower. They feel the magic; you see every session.
Who’s practicing?
Garden · play-powered
Instant feedback on the R sound, and listen-and-compare on every word.
Instant feedback
For the sounds listed above, SpeechStep tells your child straight away whether a word sounded clear or needs another go.
Listen & compare on every word
Your child hears a clear example, says the word, then plays their own try back beside it. Learning to hear the difference is part of the practice.
A person when it matters
Your SLP can listen to the recordings you choose to share. When they review one, their judgement is what you see.
An app that responds to what your child actually said
It listens to the attempt, not just the word
Feedback comes from the recording itself. Where a sound’s feedback is supported, the practice tip responds to what your child actually said; on every other word, your child hears a clear example and their own try side by side.
Built first for the S sound
The free lisp check plays the S words beside clear examples and notes what you hear, as your observations, for a child, a teen or yourself. It is a preliminary check: it never names a lisp type, and a speech-language pathologist can confirm what is happening.
It speaks your family's English
Example words come in American, British, Indian and Australian English, so your child practises against the way your family actually says the word.
See what happens between sessions
Every session is kept, so progress is something you can look at — not something you have to guess.
Days and words
Which days your child practised, which words they tried, and how their plan is going week by week.
Recordings to listen back to
Keep recordings if you choose to, so you — and your SLP, if you share them — can hear how a sound is changing.
Speech Snapshot
A short written summary of recent practice — from your SLP when you’re connected: what’s going well, what to keep practising, and the next step.
Your child’s practice doesn’t stop when the session ends.
SpeechStep works with the speech-language pathologist your family already sees. You invite them, or they invite you — nothing is shared until you both agree, and you can disconnect at any time.
Start with answers, then practise
Free tools and plain-language guides for the questions parents actually ask — is my child on track, which sounds come when, and what can we do at home.
Get answers in minutes — for free
No sign-up walls. Use our free assessments and generators to understand your child’s speech today.
Free Lisp Check
Record three S words and hear them beside clear examples. A preliminary check of what you hear, not a diagnosis, with next steps.
Start the lisp check →Speech Milestone Checker
Answer a few questions about your child’s age and speech to get an instant development score.
Start checker →Speech Delay Quiz
A 20-question screener that gives you a clear risk score and next-step recommendations.
Take the quiz →Speech Progress Tracker
Track sound mastery week over week and keep a record you can share with a therapist.
Open tracker →Printable Worksheets
Generate practice words, flashcards, and coloring pages for any sound and age.
Browse worksheets →Therapy Cost Calculator
See what private speech therapy could cost — and how much families save practicing at home.
Calculate savings →Word Generator
Pick an age and sound and instantly get a curated list of practice words to say at home.
Generate words →Is my child on track?
Every parent Googles this. See what most children can say at each age — and what to do if they’re behind.
Master tricky sounds, one at a time
Mouth-position guides, practice words, worksheets, and AI practice for the sounds kids struggle with most.
Extend your therapy beyond the session.
Assign
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Practise
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Measure
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Review
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Adjust
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Give families structured home practice, see what happens between sessions, and adjust with better evidence. A professional account is free.
Start free. One plan when you want more.
Annual · best value
$49.99/yr
3-day free trial · $4.17/month
3 days free, then $49.99. Renews automatically every year until you cancel. Cancel within the first 3 days and you will not be charged.
Monthly · flexible
$6.99/mo
Everything included
$6.99, charged today and then automatically every month until you cancel.
Everything here can be checked
We would rather show you the sources, the method and the person behind it than tell you how much other people love it.
Grounded in published guidance
Every guide on this site cites its sources, and each source is checked before it publishes. Right now that is 1,992 verified citations across 226 guides, drawn from 348 distinct sources — ASHA · peer-reviewed journals · government health agencies · NIDCD · CDC. These counts are measured from the content at build time, not typed in by hand.
See the sources on a guide →Feedback that says what it knows
Instant feedback on the R sound, and listen-and-compare on every word. On every other word SpeechStep doesn’t guess — your child listens and compares instead. When an SLP reviews a recording, their judgement is the one you see.
How feedback works →Built by a parent who needed it
“SpeechStep started at my own kitchen table. Both of my children have a lisp — my teenager a slight one, my younger child a more noticeable one.” Sachin Anand is an engineer (B.Tech, IIT Kanpur, Electrical Engineering — Communications) whose work has lived in signal processing and acoustics, which is the ground SpeechStep stands on.
Read the full story →Practice every day. See progress. Get guidance when you need it.
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